Labor Department’s Jobless Claims Have Been “Consistently” Inaccurate, Government Watchdog Says
3rd December 2020
In news that should stun no one, the Government Accountability Office has found that the Labor Department has “consistently” provided inaccurate information on the state of the labor market. The GAO also found that millions of workers were underpaid by government assistance during the pandemic.
The Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims reports have produced “flawed estimates of the number of individuals receiving benefits each week throughout the pandemic,” the GAO said, according to the Wall Street Journal. The GAO said they “didn’t know the full extent of the errors”.